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PrecisionFDA Consistency Challenge Will Benchmark the Basic Software Tools of Genetic Research
Bio-IT World | The first challenge hosted in the FDA's cloud-based precisionFDA platform will score different computational pipelines' ability to accurately call variants from raw DNA sequence data, in a public competition meant to shed light on some of the most essential tools in genomics.
Mar 4, 2016
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Alaska’s Biotech Sugar Daddy Is Showering Money on Startups
Bloomberg.com | Alaska's economic eminence stems from the discovery of oil on the North Slope in the 1960s. But its more recent crown as a biotech sugar daddy started in March 2013 with a chance meeting on a flight from Boston to Seattle.
Mar 3, 2016
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Precision for Medicine Transforms Big Data Into Actionable Information
Bio-IT World | Precision for Medicine will formally launch its immuno-analytics platform solution this month, the latest addition to its PATH suite of tools for contending with big 'omics data even when working with small sample sizes.
Mar 2, 2016
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February News and Product Briefs
Bio-IT World | The latest products and announcements from around the industry, including the introduction of Arvados to Microsoft Azure, and an online solution for metagenomics through One Codex.
Mar 1, 2016
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New CRISPR-Like Defense System Discovered in Giant Viruses
The Atlantic | The bizarre Mimivirus has become even more perplexing, as scientists uncover a genetic element called MIMIVRE, highly analogous to CRISPR, that it uses to fight off smaller viruses.
Feb 29, 2016
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NanoString Reveals Novel Sequencing Method for Cancer Assays
Bio-IT World | NanoString Technologies, a Seattle company with a small but comfortable niche in automated genetic analysis, is preparing to make the leap into DNA and RNA sequencing, with a highly novel process it calls Hyb and Seq.
Feb 29, 2016
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Obama Is Using the Bully Pulpit to Set Patient Data Free
Forbes | At a White House meeting on the President's Precision Medicine Initiative, open data, shared with patients and between centers, is the centerpiece of a national plan.
Feb 25, 2016
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Verily, Vanderbilt Named to Launch U.S. Precision Medicine Pilot
Reuters | The National Institutes of Health on Thursday named Verily, formerly Google Life Sciences, as advisor to Nashville's Vanderbilt University in a pilot program to launch the Precision Medicine Initiative outlined by President Barack Obama last year.
Feb 25, 2016
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Illumina Sues Oxford Nanopore Technologies Over Composition of Nanopores
Bio-IT World | Oxford Nanopore Technologies, creator of the world's first and only nanopore sequencer, has found itself the target of a lawsuit by genomics giant Illumina, which does not make a nanopore sequencer but does license two patents related to a very specific iteration of the technology.
Feb 24, 2016
